regretti 
🍝
A programming language where comments are the first-class citizen and ASCII art flowcharts are the controls!
Made for Lang Jam (
jam0001) theme: first-class comments in 48 hours.
Summary
What if all those "TODO:" comments and beautiful ASCII art diagrams in your code actually worked? Presenting you the one and only regretti, write your spaghetti and forgetti!
Basically, I took the theme "literally"!
So comments are commands!
You can only run instruction statements inside a comment!
Table of Contents
Goals
- Teaching: What initially started as a troll/esoteric language, it language could be used to teach kids "Control Flows" visually.
- High-performance: The existing functionality/examples runs faster than most interpreted languages!
- Helpful Error Messages: Almost every errors will be catched and prints out a helpful error message as to denote what went wrong. (Inspired from Rust
❤️ )
Installation
NOTE: Please run on Linux.
$ git clone https://github.com/mufeedvh/regretti.git
$ cd regretti/
$ cargo build --release
$ ./target/release/regretti
Hello World
Lo and behold!
main:
/*
+----------------------+
| print "Hello World!" |
+----------------------+
*/
Loops
main:
let count = 69420
/*
+--------+
| loop 5 |<----------+
+--------+ |
| v
| +-----------------------+
| | print count |
| +-----------------------+
| ^
| |
+---------------+
*/
:end
Get more examples below!
Examples
Examples are the best way to learn regretti, these cover all the features and functionalities of the language:
All other examples have not been completely implemented yet.
Also I am pretty sure there are a lot of bugs, this is probably the most obscure syntax for parsing lol...
Flow Charts?
Internals
In a nutshell:
